On the other hand, show me a war that was'nt brutal.....Regardless of technology, terrain, strategies, every war, within the context of it's own time frame, was brutal......ask any Vet.....After thinking about it, I can't say one war was more brutal than the other.....my opinion now is: the CW wasn't any better or worse than any other war......No book or reference to site, just the plain, accepted truth.....